FLS vs. GGG, IEX, TKR, GTLS, MLI, ATKR, AA, ADT, ESAB, and BERY
Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Graco (GGG), IDEX (IEX), Timken (TKR), Chart Industries (GTLS), Mueller Industries (MLI), Atkore (ATKR), Alcoa (AA), ADT (ADT), ESAB (ESAB), and Berry Global Group (BERY). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Graco (NYSE:GGG) and Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Graco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Flowserve. Graco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flowserve, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graco has a net margin of 23.07% compared to Graco's net margin of 4.32%. Flowserve's return on equity of 24.61% beat Graco's return on equity.
Graco pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Graco pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowserve pays out 59.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Graco has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years and Flowserve has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Flowserve had 2 more articles in the media than Graco. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Flowserve and 4 mentions for Graco. Graco's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Flowserve's score of 0.84 indicating that Flowserve is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Graco has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowserve has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Flowserve received 184 more outperform votes than Graco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.53% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 61.15% of users gave Graco an outperform vote.
93.9% of Graco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.9% of Flowserve shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Graco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Flowserve shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Graco currently has a consensus target price of $84.80, suggesting a potential downside of 3.75%. Flowserve has a consensus target price of $48.25, suggesting a potential upside of 5.74%. Given Graco's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Graco.
Summary
Flowserve beats Graco on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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